Approximate Design of Fully Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns

Young Han Kim; Masaru Nakaiwa; Kyu Suk Hwang

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.19, No.3, 383-390, May, 2002

DOI10.1007/BF02697144 Export Citation

Approximate Design of Fully Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns

Young Han Kim^†, Masaru Nakaiwa¹, and Kyu Suk Hwang²

Dept. of Chem. Eng., Dong-A University, Busan 604-714, Korea
¹Energy-Efficient Chemical Systems Group, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
²Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Japan

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An approximate design procedure for fully thermally coupled distillation columns (FTCDCs) is proposed and applied to example ternary systems. The procedure gives a fast solution of structural and operation design for a preliminary study of the FTCDC. The structural information resolves the design difficulty, caused from the interlinking streams of the column, which is encountered when a conventional design procedure is implemented. The design outcome explains that how the thermodynamic efficiency of the FTCDC is higher than that of a conventional two-column system and how the system of a separate prefractionator is different from a dividing wall structure. From the design result of three example systems with three different feed compositions, the useful performance of the proposed scheme is proved. In addition, the structural design of the FTCDC gives better understanding of the system and leads to high efficiency design of the column.

Keywords:Process Design;Distillation Column Design;Thermally Coupled Distillation;Approximate Design;Energy Efficient Distillation

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